Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers

Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.Roger Holdsworth is a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK.Robert Stagg is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the New Variorum Shakespeare at Texas A&M University, USA.David Thacker is a theatre, film and television director and Professor of Theatre and Film, University of Greater Manchester, UK.

• Foreword, Roger Holdsworth (University of Oxford, UK), Robert Stagg (University of Birmingham and University of Oxford, UK) and David Thacker (University of Bolton, UK)Introduction: Blackshirt ShakespeareChapter 1. All Perform Their Tragic Play: Yeats Goes to StratfordChapter 2. Hamlet in Weimar: Gordon Craig and the Nietzsche ArchiveChapter 3. Dance of Death: Lawrence and the Morris MenChapter 4. Memory Theatre: The Bad Demons of Frances YatesChapter 5. Broken Coriolanus: Eliot's March on RomeChapter 6. Black Swan: Shylock and the ChestertonsChapter 7. Crooked Cross: Wilson Knight and the Sun-WheelChapter 8. What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks: Marshall McLuhan's New DawnChapter 9. Operation Sea Lion: Carl Schmitt and the Scepter'd IsleChapter 10. Bad Faith: Clara de Chambrun and Le Grand Will Epilogue: Shakespeare and the Merchant of HamburgNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account...is not just an important but a genuinely essential book: one that includes in its ranks not only known outliers and eccentrics but some of the most celebrated and influential figures in the Shakespeare business...Hard-hitting and also scathingly funny.